WEC 31 marked a year since Zuffa purchased and revamped World Extreme Cagefighting. In that year, they’ve put on very solid events and this one looked promising as well. The card featured three title defenses (at 145, 185, and 205 lbs) as well as the WEC debut of the former UFC champion Jens Pulver. Another former UFC champ, Frank Mir is calling the fights along with the play-by-play man Todd Harris – more on them later.
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The broadcast starts off with Mike Goldberg and his partner – as always – Joe Rogan going over the scheduled card. This smoothly segues into a seemingly endless World of Warcraft commercial that sets the tone for the whole night: During every commercial break, we are reminded by Mr. T or William Shatner about the joys of WoW. Why is Blizzard investing so much into advertising a three-year old game? Are they resting on their laurels? What happened to Diablo 3, anyway? Oh yeah sorry, I am supposed to be reviewing the UFC here. On to the first televised fight: